Outstanding post!
Michigan State 85, Illinois 82 OT Postgame
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I commend this post game thread
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The more I see the feers play, the more it piss3s me off. What in the world are the refs seeing? It is quite obvious that he was in a natural landing position, then completely shifted and stuck his leg out to trip Mirk.
Utter garbage play from a complete garbage player. Can't wait to meet them in the BTT.
foby
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I think the point is if we do drop one of them, we’re still firmly in the title race as long as Purdue beats Fichigan.
It’s not outrageous that we drop (at least) one of the 4, in fact likely. Those are good teams, and IMHO, Wisconsin is the hardest since we won’t have Boswell and their guards are extremely talented.
Also, those that are of this mindset should consider the fact that Michigan State went 17-3 last year, and TWO of the three losses were to UCLA and USC (one was a 7seed, the other missed the tournament).
Those west coast games aren’t as easy as they seem.
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A lot of belief in this team. That’s a neutral site win as badly as we played at times.
I believe we’ll be in playing in Indy in early April and got FF tickets. Chasing that Natty!
I would rather not rely on another team to help us in the title race. I’d much rather win the games we should.
Please stop hyping up Wisconsin. They had one out of body experience beating Michigan but they haven’t come close to that since that game. They don’t defend nor rebound well. They lost to the two best teams they played since that game (IU and USC) and the best teams they beat is a mediocre Ohio State team. We have guards, centers and forwards that extremely talented. I’ll take my chances relying on those players over their guards.
What MSU did it last year doesn’t mean anything to me. That was last year.
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hilarious quote when you consider there are 2-3 clips form yesterday of blatant trips, pulling, etc that went uncalled
dude wouldve fouled out in regulation if that crap was true
Well, we see where he gets it. Good job, Dad!
The funny thing about this is 3 of the 4 games were home games for them and Fears didn’t play in the 24 game. Had 4 and 9 points in the 25 games. Context is important here.
I know this is farfetched, but, what would have been the result of Mirk, after being purposely tripped, getting to his feet and getting into a fist fight with Fears. Is it possible that both players get ejected. Such a result would surely have benefitted us. I mean, not dealing with Fears' numerous instances of dirty play prior to a fist fight on national television would make the powers that be look pretty bad. Hell, the kid we had a few years ago who stepped on the Purdue player got a two game suspension. I think that if Fears' dirty play continues that sooner or later he will be dealt with by a player.
Fears is a sneaky dirty player not a guy who's going to throw a punch in a face to face fight. Mirk would have been kicked out and they would have beat our 6 man rotation like a drum. I don't really follow all the dirty players but he reminds me of Chris Paul.
My honest opinion is that Izzo’s tantrum was the reason for it not being a flagrant. When they go to take a look at the scores table, we can see an insane outburst from Izzo, right in the face of the official. There’s several comments in the game thread wondering why he was so mad when the officials sided with him.
Such trash program with trash officials.
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Awful, awful, awful. Difference in being a 3pt lead with 2 minutes to go versus a 1pt deficit with 1:50 to go.
And to me it just shows he knows Fears is playing dirty and is trying to protect him and all his talk about not tolerating dirty play is hogwash.
If I know my guy has a propensity to make dirty plays, I’m fine with the officials taking a look and if they see something dirty he deserves to be punished.
The most outrageous thing to me is all the MSU fans defending Fears saying the trip was just a normal basketball play.
If Keaton was out there doing the same stuff, I would not be able to defend it. I could maybe compartmentalize and celebrate his play while ignoring the antics. But I don't know how any decent human with eyes and a brain could defend it.
And the worst part is, he's such a small, scared little piss ant that he has to try to assault you when you're not looking. At least a guy like Edey had the decency to look you in the eye when he elbowed you in the face.
If Keaton was out there doing the same stuff, I would not be able to defend it. I could maybe compartmentalize and celebrate his play while ignoring the antics. But I don't know how any decent human with eyes and a brain could defend it.
And the worst part is, he's such a small, scared little piss ant that he has to try to assault you when you're not looking. At least a guy like Edey had the decency to look you in the eye when he elbowed you in the face.
Even more outrageous shall be the fact that the guys assigned to officiate the games agree with them.
I think they're just so scared of / enamored with Izzo that they bend over on command for him. Which is its own kind of embarrassing.
Officiating is hard. But that was blatant.
My hope is that while Brad didn’t publicly say that play was dirty, he does exactly what Izzo wanted May to do. Call him directly and say that was dirty and you know it, deal with it. Then send it to the league as well. Surely the league has seen this all and is tracking it, but put a little pressure on them.
Guys, it is very simple. All this talk of officials being scared/intimidated/enamored with Izzo.....it's all moot. The league has, and always has, put its thumb on the scale of these marquee matchups year in and year out. They need to keep MSU up top of the standings to create drama within the league race and keep as many B10 teams in the spotlight as they can. Thusly, generating as much interest (read: $$$$$) for the B10 tournament as possible.
Again, been doing it for years. And, as a result, it ultimately harms the truly elite conference teams come tourney time. No champion in the past 25 years speaks volumes.
Again, been doing it for years. And, as a result, it ultimately harms the truly elite conference teams come tourney time. No champion in the past 25 years speaks volumes.
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